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Freescale mobile device concepts get video outing

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You might remember that we’ve been highlighting some of Freescale’s tablet and ultramobile device concepts created with SCAD over the past month or so; now the company has put its (virtual) silicon where its pens have been, and created some concept videos.

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Safari extension highlight: Better Geocaching

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Although I don't get a chance to do as much geocaching as I'd like to, I still check the Geocaching.com cache maps on occasion to see what's new in the area.

Simple but unusual bookcases by Faktura Designs

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It's hard to make a bookcase interesting, but I'm digging NYC-based Faktura Designs' efforts with their Scala (above), V (below) and Twig (bottom) bookcases.

Purported Windows Phone 7 Device Appears in Leaked Photo

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While Microsoft has let the tech press poke around Windows Phone 7, the built-from-the-ground-up OS it announced back in February, we’ve so far heard zilch about the phones that will be running it, save for the fact that a handful of top-tier OEMs will make them.

BlackBerry Messaging Now Shut Down in Saudi Arabia

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Saudi Arabia has carried through with it's promise and has forced the three network providers to block access to BlackBerry Messaging. Yahoo!

Apple Blocks iPhone 4 Jailbreak in Stores

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Earlier this week the iPhone 4 jailbreak was released. The new jailbreak for iPhone doesn't require that you tether your phone to your computer to run it.

Samsung Epic 4G Launching August 11 at Sprint

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The Samsung Epic 4G is rumoured to be arriving at Sprint as early as August 11. The information is found in what BGR refer to as the "Sprint playbook" where other information also indicates that stores will be opening up at 8am that day.The launch of the Samsung Epic 4G jumps in just before the...

Apple may ship huge numbers of new MacBook Air in September

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Apple is planning a huge ramp in production for a new MacBook Air that could suggest a much more mainstream design, BMO analyst Keith Bachman said today.

Rash Of Traffic Accidents Blamed On ‘iPod Oblivion’

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Flickr’d. Retro! Apple’s iPod has been singled out as the reason for more than 17 accidents per day in the UK. The situation has been dubbed “iPod Oblivion”: people so “into” what’s playing on their iPod that they ignore the world around them, necessarily leading to accidents.

FCC Puts An End To Net Neutrality Negotiations

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The FCC has put an end to negotiations with major Internet Industry companies, where they were attempting to reach a compromise on net neutrality. The meetings were taking place in order to come to an amicable agreement over net neutrality rules.

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Eros 11.6-inch Tablet with Atom, ION and CULV

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Here is a new Tablet from the far east, its called the Eros 11.6-inch Tablet Device that features a resistive touchscreen that boost a native resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels and a 2.5-inch 160GB Hard Drive and up to 1GB of RAM.

Nils Voelker “one hundred and eight”: who says CPU fans & trash bags aren’t art? [Video]

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Ever wanted your living room wall to look like the inner lining of a lung? If so, you need to talk to Nils Voelker: his latest project, called “one hundred and eight“, takes 108 garbage bags and then uses 216 computer-controlled CPU cooling fans to selectively inflate and deflate them.

Bring God Modes in Windows 7 OS

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If you want to get full access on your Windows 7, now you can try the God Mode. This syntax is really simple, just create a new folder on your hard disk partition and rename it with this: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} Now you will have an icon with name GodMode.

Android 2.2 coming to the Droid X “by early September”

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Section: Communications, Cellular Providers, Smartphones, Mobile Despite some earlier reports that the Android 2.2 update was already underway for Droid X owners—it looks like that will not be happening until sometime in September.

HTC Desire goes on sale at Telus

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As rumored yesterday, Canadian wireless provider Telus has launched the HTC Desire today. Compared to international Desires, the Canadian model gets 850MHz and 1,900MHz 3G bands and switches from Samsung-supplied AMOLED screens to Sony Super LCD displays.

TUAW review and giveaway: MoviePeg for iPad

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Last April, I reviewed the original MoviePeg for the iPhone 3GS. It was a super little stand that I used every day.

ASUS Windows Phone 7 smartphone leaks

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What appears to be ASUS’ Windows Phone 7 smartphone has shown up in the wild, caught in Pakistan by Twitter user Shaistajafri.

MetroPCS’ 4G phone now badged Samsung Craft, to cost $300

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The regional no-contract carrier MetroPCS has revealed that the Samsung R900 will be known as the Craft when it launches in conjunction with the carrier's planned Long Term Evolution (LTE) rollout scheduled for later this year.

iPod touch camera prototype hits eBay

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Apple’s plans to put a camera in the iPod touch have been raked over on numerous occasions – in fact we saw a supposed case design just the other day – and we’ve even seen a few prototypes in the wild.

Apple Store Covent Garden To Be The Worlds Largest, Opens Tomorrow

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Apple [AAPL] is about to open its biggest store in Covent Garden tomorrow, and this is Apple’s 300th retail outlet. Apple will open the doors to the Covent Garden store at 10am tomorrow.

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School Bus Fitted With Jet Engine, Does 367 MPH

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We have featured quite a few vehicles that have been fitted with jet engine here at Geeky Gadgets, although I think this is the first ever School Bus to be fitted with a jet Engine.

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Apple eying Chinese Java game developer Handseeing?

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As we’ve seen in the past, publicly announcing your deals with Apple before the Cupertino PR machine has had its way is generally a shortcut to seeing your business partnership dissolve, but that hasn’t stopped Chinese game developer Handseeing.

ROCR wall-climbing robot wags its tail to scale heights

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We’ve seen a humanoid climb up the walls and also a wall-painter bot scaling the walls like a Spiderman, therefore this ROCR Oscillating Climbing Robot by mechanical engineers at the University of Utah, isn’t all that new to our eyes.

Saudi Arabia’s BlackBerry Messenger ban takes effect

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Saudi Arabia acted on its planned ban of BlackBerry Messenger services on Friday and shut off access to RIM's instant chats. The block came after officials were unable to get monitoring of BBM conversations.

Facebook says ad spending on the rise

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Section: Web, Web 2.0 / Social Networking In an interview with BusinessWeek magazine, the COO of Facebook said ad spending on the site is at an all time high, a sign that big advertisers are starting to see advertising on the site in a new and lucrative light.

Asus 8-Inch E-Reader Slated For October Release, $599 Price (Whaaa?)

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Digitimes, a standard for Asian hardware rumors and CE industry news, just posted a report indicating, well, like my headline states, Asus is prepping “an e-book reader with an 8-inch 64-grayscale TFT-LCD screen without backlight for own-brand sale at below US$599 in October 2010.” But...

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